Polk County registration location changed
From a member in Polk: Polk County has changed their registration location without telling anyone. I went to the old office to update vehicle registration and found it closed with a sign on the door. The new location, 7101 Decastro Road, Winter Haven, Fl, 33880, is hard to get to. Other registrants were complaining that there’s no close bus stop, and nobody seems to have been notified of the change – even those who had appointments to register. Please get the word out – it’s horrible for people to make arrangements to get to Bartow only to find the place has moved.
As of 5/14/2021 the FDLE still has the old address listed on the directory: https://offender.fdle.state.fl.us/offender/Documents/REREGISTRATIONLOCATIONS.pdf
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This article and the many views are interesting. Yes they say everything takes time. I was expecially in chereeooke’s ordeal at Disney World. Reminds me of my incounter back in 2016 when I had the idea of doing telephone work. Actually it was telephone work to get Donald Trump elected. While I had already my reasons all along about Trump I wanted to know “why” they wanted Donald Trump as President.
Course the lady at the location office said everyone would have to go on Facebook to sign up and I knew I couldn’t and had second thoughts.
I had a monthy report at my PO and mentioned that to him that I had gotten a job and he ask me whats the job and I said telephone survay work for Donald Trump and I mentioned that I couldn’t take the job as I had to go to facebook to registar and sign up.
So he’s my PO. taking things to far and while I did not actually sign up, get a password to enter facebook they assumed that becausse I was on the front of the website that I actually signed up for it.
So here I am going back to court. Of course it was a closed hearing because it involved the 2016 presidency there for that was a violation for just going to the Facebook front page without signing up getting a password and things of the nature of the ordeal.
Even my sister wonder why it was a closed court trial that day. Since Donald Trump is no longer President.
If FAC feels like posting this thats ok if not than we should leave it alone but this ordeal does tell one how many will go to so many lengths to cover up a lot of ordeals.
I am for banning the sex regristy with these methods of obstruction of Justice and yes true justice in America is getting out of hand in many area’s and not just the registry. Restore true Justice as nobody needs computer Justice. Restorative Justice is the way to go in any situation.
Candy:
See if your husband has to register in Michigan after Does II becomes final. I know a guy in Saginaw with a “victim under 13” who hired an attorney. His attorney told him that he will automatically be removed after Does II becomes final. He is on for life for a 2000 conviction.
You can read all the stuff on ACLU of Michigan’s website. There are several attorneys in Michigan doing a significant amount of registry work as part of their practice. You can contact one of them as well.
Mike:
My cousin’s stepchild is on the registry in Indiana. She was placed on the registry after a couple of guys took nude pictures of her and her 16 year-old friend in high school.
She did 3 years on her last FTR and is currently in Rockville doing 4 years on her current FTR. She’s 34 now and has about 11 or 12 FTR’s for minor stuff like there not being bus service in a hick town for her to “deregister” in. She has spent most of her adult life in jail or prison on these various FTR’s.
I would be cautious in Indiana.
Here is my take on that, no disrespect intended. Everyone said before I went to prison no one can do probation. I had to do a driving log, wear a monitor, do treatment, on top of probation. Did it, 3 years worth no issues. In my opinion there is always going to be people who push buttons, or challenge the system the wrong way or too far. I don’t know what town or county the person you spoke if is in but so far it seems good here. I can vote, nothing unusual on my license. I think when I say it is better here, it’s based on what is important to me, and that will differ from person to person. Lots of people on the registry arrested everyday for petty stuff. I’m never going to dance in the gray area, I feel that I owe my family that. So, I’m sorry that people have to go through being locked up for the registry. For me I will speak out against it up until I feel my freedom is at risk. I can’t do anything for my kids sitting in prison.
Candy and Mike:
Thanks for the posts.
What I am seeing is that Georgia and Florida are trying to chase registrants out of state. Georgia has a state rep (Jerry Keen) that chasing registrants out of Georgia is his sole issue.
My old neighbor, Hal Nemecheck was one of the first registrants on the registry in Michigan in 1994. He was on the registry until he died in 2017. He was on the registry for 23 years in Battle Creek and the police didn’t come to his door a single time. He said he was always in and out of the registration office (4 times a year) in under 5 minutes and the police were always very nice to him. The cities that aren’t so much into compliance checks in Michigan are Detroit, Flint, Saginaw and Battle Creek. Jackson isn’t strict but I heard about the Jackson police shining their lights in the windows of registrants.
It would be helpful if we could compile registrant experiences in these different jurisdictions. Perhaps, you and others wouldn’t have relocated to Florida if such a matrix existed.
We moved from Florida (where my husband is on the registry for lewd & lascivious from 1996) to Georgia. Georgia is great – they changed their laws over a decade ago and Keen isn’t in office anymore, anyway. The local sheriff’s dept understood what he was on for – one deputy even told me that Florida has the most ridiculous laws pertaining to the SOR. To make a long story short, my husband doesn’t have to register in Georgia at all, he was completely removed from GA’s registry (not Florida’s, though). It was one court hearing, about $1500 in legal fees and a “tier-ing” since Florida doesn’t tier.
Teresa:
That is good news. I wasn’t even aware that registrants could petition for removal in Georgia.
Do you have the statute that allows for removal?
Hey Detroit – it is O.C.G.A. § 42-1-19 (a).
Teresa:
This is good news. Every registrant in Florida should know about this. Georgia’s not that far to move for most in Florida.
GA attorney Mark Yurachek has cautioned against relocating from FL over differences in registration. Those thinking of doing so might consult with him first.
Jacob
It is what I call “Registry shopping”. I tried it in the past and it bit me in the hind parts. Thought I could move to greener pastures, but like you said, out of staters often have to go by different rules. I moved right back to where I was to start with.
Detroit, only one problem. I have lots of friends here in Florida and I like living here in my retirement home. I didn’t spend 29 years in the military service to let some ‘candy ass’ politician who is clueless about life situations cause me to move. I will stay and fight for justice. That’s the sort of spirit military service will give you.
Mike:
How is the registry “better” in NJ? Do they do compliance checks?
In NJ, my husband was classified at the lowest tier level, since he was a first time offender and his conviction was in 1990, long before Megan’s Law was in existance. He’s never been arrested before or since that charge. So once a year in NJ, two detectives showed up on our doorstep to make sure he was living there. That’s it – he didn’t have an identifier on his license indicating he was a sex offender; he was just another passenger on a cruise ship out of Florida when he lived in NJ but because Florida has a publically available online registry, he’s now been banned. He was just another tourist in DisneyWorld for over 8 years, but now that he’s a Florida resident who tried to get an annual pass, he’s banned for life. Now that we live in Florida he has to report 4 times a year to the county sheriff’s office, and he is forced to pay $25 twice a year to cover the costs of registration, which is complete BS. I was the one that failed to research SO restrictions in this state before moving here, but honestly, it never occured to me that just moving from one state to another would result in publically shaming us for life and I wish so badly that we could afford to leave, but we are trapped! Just wondering, what idiot came to the conclusion that the registry isn’t punishment? It seems that our entire family is now guilty by association just for standing by his side. So, if you don’t mind being discriminated against on a regular basis just for being a resident that pays taxes, then Florida is a great place to live, but it is hell for us.
Not to highjack the post topic, but I’m actually in Indiana now. A lot of jobs, as long as you aren’t afraid of hard work. Better pay, I have kids so better schools.
Registry specific, they have 3 levels, if you are not deemed a predator by this state you register once a year. They have been very nice and understanding about travel and moving. No one has come to check on me after 3 months. From the officer in charge, yes I can take my kid to the park. As long as I keep them informed of changes they aren’t in my business and going to bother me. I was shocked. He looked shocked when I asked if I could take my kid to the park. Is still a registry, like I can’t go to schools if my kid is sick. But as far as feeling like a piece of crap because admitted that’s what most sheriff’s there think of us, I lived in Volusia, it’s just nice to be treated like a person.